a shotgun wedding



a shotgun wedding

  (British, American & Australian old-fashioned) also a shotgun marriage (American old-fashioned)
a marriage that is arranged very quickly because the woman is going to have a baby After a shotgun wedding at 20, she had 3 children before divorcing from her husband.
See also: shotgun, wedding

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
AulisOW-leesFinnish
Haim-Hebrew
Mariazinha-Portuguese
Erwann-Breton
Owen (2)-Irish
JozefYO-zəf (Dutch)Slovak, Dutch